General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been awarded a $199,746,895 firm-fixed-price, option-eligible, non-multi-year contract to provide MQ-1C Gray Eagle fiscal year 2013 full rate production and fiscal 2012 hardware backfill requirements applicable to the Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
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Selex Gets UN Congo Peacekeeping Mission Contract for Falco
Selex ES was awarded, on 31 July, a service agreement by the United Nations for the provision of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) for 3 years with 2 optional years, in support of the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the use of UAS, consisting of unmanned aircraft and associated enablers for information gathering/surveillance operations. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman and Carter Aviation Get $9M TERN Project Award
Northrop Grumman and Carter Aviation Technologies have been hired for a $9 million effort to conceptualize an armed UAS that will launch from a small ship to strike as far as 900 nautical miles away, according to the Pentagon. A test launch is slated for 2017. Continue reading
Nebraska University Gets Department of Agriculture Grant for Remote Water Testing UAS
When natural disaster next strikes, a UAS built by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers may fly in to check on the water supply where people cannot.A project underway at the Nebraska Intelligent Mobile Unmanned Systems Lab aims to build unmanned aircraft systems that can fly over difficult-to-reach bodies of water and collect samples for analysis. Continue reading
Mozambique Considers Domestic Production of UAS
Unmanned aircraft could be assembled in Mozambique, under collaboration between the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Engineering Faculty of the University of Oporto in Portugal, and Maputo’s Eduardo Mondlane University. Continue reading
AeroVironment New US Army Orders for Switchblade Tactical Missile Systems Now Total $37M
AeroVironment, Inc. announced it has received orders valued at $36,746,304 under a contract for Switchblade(TM) tactical missile systems, ancillary equipment and support. The United States Army Close Combat Weapons Systems Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (PEO MS) awarded these contract modifications. AeroVironment and its strategic teammate for advanced warheads, ATK, will work together to produce and deliver the systems. Continue reading
New Middle East Contract for SELEX Falco
Selex ES has announced that it will supply its Falco UAS to an unnamed country in the Middle East. The €40 million contract also includes operational and maintenance support to the customer over a 12 month period. Continue reading
Blue Bear and General Dynamics Team to Market Penguin B-based Redkite UAS
Blue Bear and General Dynamics UK have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to mutually support each other in the promotion of their respective capabilities and products and will exhibit the Redkite UAS on the General Dynamics UK stand at DSEi this week. Continue reading